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LGBTQ VICTORY INSTUTE (GAY AND LBIAN VICTORY INSTUTE)

Gay & Lbian Victory Foundatn, a 501(c)3 anizatn now lled Victory Instute, is lnched. LGBTQ lears at the Internatnal Network of Gay & Lbian Officials, which would be fold to Victory Instute. Bond is creded wh substantially creasg the number of out gay and lbian elected officials om 129 to 228.

THE GAY AND LBIAN VICTORY INSTUTE (GLVI)

Victory Instute holds a jot nference wh the Internatnal Network of Lbian and Gay Officials (INLGO), which was found 1984.

“Puttg me on the list brought my name to the attentn of people who didn’t know I was gay.

Puttg me on the list brought my name to the attentn of people who didn’t know I was gay, but knew me different paci. On May 1, 1991, the Gay & Lbian Victory Fund was formally created as a non-partisan polil actn mtee. LGBTQ lears at the Internatnal Network of Gay & Lbian Officials, which would be fold to Victory Foundatn.

GAY & LBIAN VICTORY FUND AND LEARSHIP INSTUTE

Victory Fund also endors recently out cumbent Jim Kolbe, who be the first openly gay Republin to w electn to Congrs. Fifty-eight percent of Victory Fund’s 51 endorsed ndidat w their race – cludg Karla Drenner, who beme the first openly gay state legislator the Deep South when she won her race for the Geia state legislature. Wh support om Victory Fund, endorsed ndidate Ron On of Palm Sprgs be the first openly gay Ain-Amerin mayor the U.

THE GAY AND LBIAN VICTORY INSTUTE (GLVI)

History to be elected to a Secretary of State post, and Lawrence Webb is elected to the Falls Church Cy Council, beg the first openly gay Ain-Amerin elected the Commonwealth of Virgia. Charl Pugh be the first openly gay elected official Detro, wng the princy of the cy uncil after fishg first a crowd field, and Simone Bell Geia be the first Ain-Amerin lbian to w electn to a state legislature.

GAY & LBIAN VICTORY FUND AND LEARSHIP INSTUTE

In November 2018, Colorado ma Jared Polis the first openly gay man elected ernor of a U.

She ma the ments the wake of opn pollg that showed openly gay printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg was receivg ltle support om Black voters for the 2020 Democratic printial primari.

GOVERNMENT PERSECUTN OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNY IS WISPREADFRANK KAMENY APPEALED HIS 1957 FIRG BY THE U.S. ARMY THE FIRST KNOWN LEGAL PROCEEDGS THAT ED PRO-LGBTQ+ ARGUMENTS. THE 1950S WERE PERILO TIM FOR DIVIDUALS WHO FELL OUTSI OF SOCIETY’S LEGALLY ALLOWED NORMS RELATG TO GENR OR SEXUALY. THERE WERE MANY NAM FOR THE DIVIDUALS, CLUDG THE CLIL “HOMOSEXUAL,” A TERM POPULARIZED BY PNEERG GERMAN PSYCHIATRIST RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBG. IN THE U.S., PROFSNALS OFTEN ED THE TERM “VERT.” IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY, MANY CI FORMED “VICE SQUADS” AND POLICE OFTEN LABELED THE PEOPLE THEY ARRTED “SEXUAL PERVERTS.” THE ERNMENT’S PREFERRED TERM WAS “VIANT,” WHICH ME WH LEGAL NSEQUENC FOR ANYONE SEEKG A REER PUBLIC SERVICE OR THE ARY. “HOMOPHILE” WAS THE TERM PREFERRED BY SOME EARLY ACTIVISTS, SMALL WORKS OF WOMEN AND MEN WHO YEARNED FOR MUNY AND FOUND CREATIVE WAYS TO RIST LEGAL AND SOCIETAL PERSECUTN. WH DRAFT ELIGIBILY OFFICIALLY LOWERED OM 21 TO 18 1942, WORLD WAR II BROUGHT TOGETHER LNS OF PEOPLE OM AROUND THE UNTRY–MANY OF WHOM WERE LEAVG THEIR HOME STAT FOR THE FIRST TIME–TO FILL THE RANKS OF THE ARY AND THE FERAL WORKFORCE. AMONG THEM WERE GAYS AND LBIANS, WHO QUIETLY FORMED KSHIPS ON ARY BAS AROUND THE WORLD. THEY SERVED SILENCE, ALWAYS FEARFUL THAT REVEALG THEIR INTY TO A POTENTIAL NEW PARTNER OR IEND ULD GET THEM DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED, IF NOT URT MARTIALLED. THE ARY FIRST VELOPED FORMAL PUNISHMENTS FOR HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR DURG WWI, AND OVER TIME VELOPED CREASGLY PROBG MEANS TO ROOT OUT “VIANTS” OM WH AND PREVENT THEM OM ENLISTG. IN 1953, PRINT DWIGHT EISENHOWER IMPLEMENTED NEW STANDARDS FOR CIVIL SERVANTS THAT BANNED HOMOSEXUALS OM SERVG MANY POSNS. THE LAVENR SRE THOANDS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARY AND CIVIL SERVANTS WOULD BE DISMISSED BEE OF L AGAST HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR. A FEW ANECDOT SEEMED TO SUPPORT THE ERNMENT’S REASONG HOMOSEXUALS WERE A GRAVE SECURY THREAT BEE THEY ULD BE BLACKMAILED BY FOREIGN ERNMENTS. THE IA WAS HARD TO UNTER AS FEW HOMOSEXUALS WERE A POSN TO PUBLICLY DISCS THEIR INTY.  IN THE YEARS FOLLOWG WWII, HOMOSEXUALS WERE MORE DIRECTLY TIED TO MUNISM. THE COLD WAR PERD GAVE RISE TO SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY, WHO EXPLICLY TARGETED “VIANTS,” NOT ONLY ERNMENT SERVICE, BUT ALSO HOLLYWOOD AS PART OF A LARGER PROJECT TO RID AMERI OF S UNSIRABLE ELEMENTS. THE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED EFFORT TO RID THE U.S. OF MUNISTS ME TO BE KNOWN AS THE “RED SRE,” WHILE THE EFFORT TO DISMISS HOMOSEXUALS WOULD LATER BE TERMED THE “LAVENR SRE.”THERE WERE NO OUT LGBTQ+ ELECTED OFFICIALS THE ENTIRE UNTRY.PLI MURRAY PUBLISH BOOK OUTLG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT STRATEGY

The stute was found 1993 wh the goal of electg more openly gay and lbian ndidat to polil office. At the time, there were fewer than 50 openly gay office holrs the entire Uned Stat.

The anizatn also found the Printial Appotments Project, which works to have openly gay people appoted to Senate-nfirmed posns ernment. Parker claimed the rhetoric was harmful bee created a stereotype that Blacks were homophobic.

She is the first openly gay or lbian mayor Hoton’s history. The Gay & Lbian Victory Instute works to achieve full equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people by buildg, supportg, and advancg a diverse work of LGBT public lears. Our missn: to crease the number of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people public office and to provi programg service, and other support to help ensure their succs.

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